PRONUNCIATION: (DOK-tuhr STRAYNJ-luv) MEANING:noun: Someone who is reckless about the use of weapons such as nuclear bombs. ETYMOLOGY:After Dr. Strangelove, title character of the 1963 film directed by Stanley Kubrick. Strangelove, a former Nazi, is a nuclear expert and adviser to the president. Earliest documented use: 1968.________________________________________ >remove the e <

Dr. Stranglove - the Boston Strangler whose lost glove proved he was also Dr. Jekyll and Mr. Hyde

MEANING:noun:1. The loss of one or more sounds or letters from the beginning of a word. For example, the change in pronunciation of knife from (k-nyf) to (nyf) or the formation of till from until.2. A method in which blood is drawn from a donor, one or more blood components (such as plasma, platelets, or white blood cells) are removed, and the rest is returned to the donor by transfusion.

PRONUNCIATION: (SING-kuh-pee) MEANING:noun:1. The shortening of a word by omission of sounds or letters from its middle. For example, did not to didn't or Worcester to Wooster.2. Fainting caused by insufficient blood flow to the brain.

MEANING:verb tr.:1. To pronounce a sound with an exhalation of breath.2. To pronounce the h sound at the beginning of a word as (hwich) for which.3. To inhale something (such as a fluid) into the lungs, as after throwing up.4. To draw a fluid from a body cavity by suction.(Don't you 5. aspirate a hot rod engine, too? Or at least a carburetor?)noun:1. The sound represented by h.2. A speech sound followed by an audible puff of breath.3. The matter removed from a body cavity by suction.

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